I know, I’m supposed to be on my holiday break, but I couldn’t help but post about the fantastic sales at some of my favorite paper-buying haunts!

* Save up to 50% at Luxe Paperie’s semi-annual sale

* Save on selected holiday greeting cards and gift tags from Snow & Graham, Egg Press, Two Piglets (psst…they still have sets of one of my favorites, the “monkey joy” card!), and KocoNY at Virtu

* Save 30% on holiday gift wrap from Snow & Graham, Rossi, Whimsy Press, and iota at Paper Mojo

* Save on lots of holiday paper goodies at Broadway Paper

* Save on holiday greeting cards and select holiday gift wrap at Kate’s Paperie

I hope that you have wonderful times spent with family and friends this holiday season. I’ll be taking a break until January 2, when I’ll return with more paper and paper related goodness. Happy Holidays, everyone!

Inspired by the generosity of everyone featured in my last post, I put together a selection of printable gift tags that I’ve designed over the past few years. As you can tell, I’ve been into the green and blue color scheme!

download the papercrave holiday gift tags (660KB PDF)

A selection of downloadable holiday crafts and gift tags from around the blogosphere:

* Adorable illustrated gift tags from Camilla Engman and Kitty Genius

* Downloadable gift tags in several color schemes from one of my favorite food blogs, deliciousdays

* I’d been looking a tutorial for this exact snowflake design, and I found it at how about orange… gorgeous!

* Vintage instructions for making a Moravian star at Swapatorium (via how about orange…)

Thanks to everyone for their generosity!

As I’ve alluded to before, I’m a sucker for a pretty snowflake, and this gorgeous laser cut, three dimensional snowflake card from Possum and Chestnut has me drooling. Pick one (or ten) up at Rare Device.

image from Rare Device

American Crafts has many fun patterned, holiday-themed ribbons. My faves from the autumn, holiday, and winter collections are (clockwise from top left): Pumpkin, Snow Cone, and Peppermint.

More inspirational scrapbooking paper designs. I’m digging the color schemes on the autumnal papers. Featured (clockwise from top left): Acorn, Pumpkin Pie, Tinsel, and Stocking patterns.

Find an American Crafts retailer.

images from American Crafts

Sure, it may be getting a bit late to purchase Christmas cards, but there’s still plenty of time left to get creative and do some crafting. These pretty holiday and winter-themed papers from Scenic Route Paper Co. are great inspiration:

Talbot Avenue from the Rockland Collection

Knott Street from the Rockland Collection

Swiss Alps from the Belleville and Brighton Collection

Cross Wind from the Belleville and Brighton Collection

Find Scenic Route Paper Co. scrapbooking papers online or near you by using the store locator on their website.

images from Scenic Route Paper Co.

Around this time of the year, I always start thinking about what types of things I’d like to improve upon in the coming year. One of the tasks that’s always on my list is becoming more organized. Ah, the things that I could accomplish if I wasn’t always looking around for my to do lists, which are strewn about the house on random pieces of paper, napkins, and old receipts.

My point? These stylish journals from Deadly Squire would be perfect for keeping to do lists, recording project ideas and notes, and generally keeping better track of things. Love the logo dagger detail on the spines!

Black Birds After the Harvest and Wandering Oak patterns shown above. Available from orange lola for $30 each.